The Harlem Renaissance revisited
Subtitle: politics, arts, and letters
By: edited by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar.
Contributors: Ogbar, Jeffrey Ogbonna Green.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801894602; 9780801894619
Subjects: Harlem Renaissance; African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; African American arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century; African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government -- 20th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Harlem Renaissance revisited; title: pt. 1. Aesthetics and the new Negro; title: African American representations on stage : minstrel performances and Hurston's dream of a "real" Negro theatre / Mónica González Caldeiro; title: No Negro Renaissance : Hubert H. Harrison and the role of the new Negro literary critic / Ousmane Power-Greene; title: It's all sacred music : Duke Ellington from the Cotton Club to the cathedral / Frank A. Salamone; title: pt. 2. Class and place in Harlem; title: "So the girl marries" : myth, mystery, and the Du Bois Cullen wedding / Jacqueline Jones; title: The meaning and significance of Southern tradition in Rudolph Fisher's short story The South lingers on / Aija Poikane Daumke; title: Working Harlem : everyday life and labor during the Harlem Renaissance / Jacob S. Dorman; title: pt. 3. Literary icons reconsidered; title: Jessie Redmon Fauset, reconsidered / Claire Oberon Garcia; title: Speak it into existence : James Weldon Johnson's God trombones and the power of self-definition in the new Negro Harlem Renaissance / McKinley Melton; title: Border crossings : Zora Neale Hurston & Claude McKay's diasporic travels / Myriam J.A. Chancy; title: The search for self in Thurman's The blacker the berry / Martha Cook; title: pt. 4. Gender constructions; title: Between Black gay men : artistic collaboration and the Harlem Renaissance in Brother to brother / Shawn Anthony Christian; title: Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson, and the hyper masculine African American Ubermensch / Paula Marie Seniors; title: pt. 5. Politics and the new Negro; title: Perspectives on interwar culture : remapping the new Negro era / Perry Hall; title: "Harlem globetrotters" : Black sojourners in Stalin's Soviet Union / Maxim Matusevich; title: Afterword.